Sacrilege

I grew up to hear the Yorubas say
that you don’t rush to go to the palace
because the Alaafin is always at home,
how much civilisation has met the throne,
because Alaafin not only travels inter-state
now, he goes abroad with the Oloris too.
and 79 years after… the Ooni visited Oyo.

Tomide Abdul